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Re: ASM instance creation question (Basic)

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:51:27 +0000
Message-ID: <7765c897050309105166a4c13d@mail.gmail.com>


On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:45:18 -0500, Harvinder Singh <Harvinder.Singh_at_metratech.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am checking new features of 10g and try to create ASM instance on
> Windows 2k machine and somehow it is not able to detect Disk
> groups(Create new) This is on the step when select 1 or more disks to be
> used as storage for database...Can we use ASM on windows or do we need
> to do any pre-step before using ASM on windows?

Yes you can use it on Windows. You will however need RAW disks (unformatted volumes) available and be able to tell the ASM instance where to find them (using the ASM_DISKSTRING parameter). My guess is you are having issues with one (or both) of the above steps. Am I right? and if so which is it.

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Received on Wed Mar 09 2005 - 13:54:44 CST

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